"[Jewish feminist Andrea Dworkin] tells the history of the making
of Israel and draws parallels

between

the Jews and women. Her sections are (often relentlessly)

comparative
-- the chapter titles make this absolutely clear: Pogroms/

Rapes;
The State/ The Family; Hate Literature/Pornography ... The

Holocaust
is put

side by side with the systematic oppression of

women ... Women

are metaphorical Jews. Men are the Nazis."

N. Gerrard,All Men Are Nazis,
The Observer [London], June 18, 2000, p. 11

"Something
extraordinary is happening in American society ... American life is
increasingly characterized by the plaintive insistence, I am a victim
... The mantra of the victims is the same: I am not responsible; it's
not my fault ... The ethos of victimization has an endless capacity
not only for exculpating one's self from blame, washing away responsibility
... but also for projecting guilt onto others ... The new culture
reflects a readiness not merely to feel sorry for oneself but to wield
one's resentment as weapons of social advantage ... The route to moral
superiority and premier griping rights can be gained more efficiently
through being a victim ... [SYKES, p. 11] ... Tragically, a victim's
rage that is redirected from the oppressor toward rival victim groups
ultimately turns against the victim himself. For self-hatred is the
final destination of any attempt to yoke one's sense of identity and
power to one's weaknesses, deficiencies, and perceived victimization."
Charles Sykes,A Nation of Victims. The Decay of the American Character, St.
Martin's Press, NY
1992

"A
major characteristic of American Zionist ideology is its acceptance

of
the concept that has become known as 'cultural pluralism' ... This

philosophy
... has typified American Zionist thought since the early

twentieth
century ... True, the focus of Zionist interest has been on

building
an autonomous Jewish community in Palestine. But the

successful
development of the Jewish community in America and its

constructive
relationship with the pluralistic society at large have always

Judge
Rules Against Driver Who Wanted 'Irish' on Plates.
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus[Vermont]May
13, 2001.A Jewish judge decides it's illegal to have license plates that say "Irish."
(Outrageously, in profound irony, his own personal license plate --
representing his initials -- says "MIK,"a term that can be
interpreted as a slur against the Irish).

Heavy Petting.
Nerve.com 2001
This book review, which endorses bestiality at an online sex site, by
Jewish professor Peter Singer of Princeton University, made national
news. The Washington Times noted that, for this article, "Mr.
Singer and his employer, Princeton University, have taken top honors
in the fourth annual Polly Awards, bestowed by the Wilmington, Del.-based
Intercollegiate Studies Institute for outrageous examples of political
correctness on the nation's campuses." [Washington Times, April
2, 2001] The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette noted that Singer "is
a Princeton professor of bioethics who wants to know when the sexual
revolution is gonna start revolting again. He's ready to get it on with
the animal kingdom ... He was brought to Princeton with much fanfare
by that university's president, Harvey Shapiro, who also happens
to head up the President's National Bioethics Advisory Committee. Yep,
these guys are shaping national policy. Ethical policy." [Editorial;
April 8, 2001]

The ADL Pushes
'Tolerance?' Why I am Leaving After 25 Years,
by Carl Pearlstein. Jewish World Review.
June 4, 2001
"The program for changing hearts and minds, A World of Difference,
was created in 1985 [by the Anti-Defamation League] to change prejudiced
feelings through 'sensitivity training.' It is reportedly very successful,
highly commended, and widely used by governmental agencies and many
companies. Unfortunately, my exposure to the program at a leadership
conference indicated that teaching the values of diversity, multiculturalism,
and cultural relativism resulted in denigrating the values and achievements
of Western civilization and the desirability of a common American identity.
There is now a nationwide industry of multicultural activists teaching
various "sensitivity" programs which increase awareness of racial identity,
and result in racial separation and racial hostility."

Abe
Foxman: Disgrace to My Religion, by Monty Warner Front Page magazine, August 21, 2001
"Today we have our very own national Jewish basketball mom. Just
as shrill, just as petulant, just as obnoxious, and useless to boot.
Our advocate, armed with a $50 million annual budget to ensure the meanies
never get us, is Abraham Foxman. Foxman heads the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), a once proud, worthy and worthwhile protector of Jews
and their faith. Under Foxman's brand of leadership, the ADL has devolved
into an opportunistic, intolerant, grief-grubbing stench – a "rights"
group for any and all who wish to feel offended ... For years now, despite
numerous unflattering (and under-the-radar) news stories about his complicity
in various scandals too numerous and squalid to confine to this space,
Abraham Foxman has held himself and been held forth by others as one
of the chief national political voices of Jewish people. His misuse
of and/or recklessness with ADL funds (see Henry Lyons), his whorish
behavior in the Marc Rich pardon, and his general odor in defending
such cosmopolitan thuggery; to say nothing of self-righteous condemnations
of what he arbitrarily decides to be someone else's "intolerance," is
brought to the public's attention almost weekly. Last year, during the
presidential election, Foxman, using extreme examples, pulled incendiary
comments off the Web to imply that anyone that didn't want Joe Lieberman
on the national ticket was probably anti-Semitic. Well, in some cases
that's entirely possible. It's also possible that they simply thought
Joe Lieberman was a putz."

Livingston's
Capitalism Remark Wrong Say Jews. Independent [Great Britain], April 12,
2000
"Ken Livingstone came under attack from Britain's Jewish community
yesterday after he suggested that global capitalism had caused more
deaths than Hitler. The Board of Deputies of British Jews described
the remarks as 'offensive' while Labour and Tory opponents said they
proved Mr Livingstone was unfit to become mayor of London. Mr Livingstone
said economists had estimated that in any year since 1981, up to 20
million people had died because governments cut back on health schemesto
pay debts. 'Every year the international financial system kills more
people than World War Two. But at least Hitler was mad, you know?' The
comparison provoked an angry reaction from the Board of Deputies of
British Jews."

Love
Thy Neighbor. Detroit Free Press, June
30, 2001
"Some versions of the Bible may be teaching Christian kids to mistrust
Jews, says a new campaign by a national interfaith group aimed at removing
anti-Jewish phrases from children's Bibles ... The effort by the Philadelphia-based
American Interfaith Institute targets Bible publishers nationwide, including
three in Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Eerdmans and Baker
Book House. 'Our sole motive in this is to help rebuild bridges
between Christians and Jews," said Irvin Borowsky, the institute's
[Jewish] founder. 'And we are concentrating on Bibles for children,
because we have to start by making sure that we aren't teaching our
young people to hate their neighbors. Hatred violates the basic concepts
that Jesus preached.' The campaign is sparking a larger debate over
the way the world's all-time best-seller, the Christian version of the
Bible, treats Judaism. The effort has drawn fire from a leading activist
in evangelical Christianity, Texas-based writer Marvin Olasky
[a Jewish convert to Chrsitianity], who helped inspire President George
W. Bush's 'compassionate conservatism.' Recently, Olasky attacked the
idea of revising children's Bibles, calling it a misguided attempt at
political correctness. If publishers agree to alter the Bible's ancient
references to Jesus' Jewish critics, they would be violating a longstanding
practice in Bible translation, he wrote in World, a Christian
magazine he edits. At the core of the debate is the dangerous, ages-old
claim that Jews killed Jesus."
CONTEXT:"According to the Talmud," notes Israeli human rights
activist activist Israel Shahak, "Jesus was executed by a proper
rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry, and
contempt of rabbinical authority. All classical Jewish sources which
mention his execution are quite happy to take responsibility for it.
In the Talmudic account the Romans are not even mentioned." [SHAHAK,
I., 2000 Years of Jewish Religion] According to the millennia-old Jewish
book about Jesus -- Tol'doth
Yeshu, Jewish professor Joseph Klausner notes that "the
sages of Israel recognized [Jesus] and arrested him. They took and hanged
him on the eve of Passover." [KLAUSNER, p. 54]"Jesus," notes the 1997 Oxford Dictionary of the
Jewish Religion, "was arrested as a potential revolutionary
and executed (by crucifixion) by order of the Roman procurator Pontius
Pilate, probably at the instigation of Jewish circles who feared the
Roman reaction to messianic agitation." [WERBLOWSKY, Z., p. 368:
Werblowsky is an Israeli]Hillary
Pushes for Jewish Red Cross. World Net Daily,
March 15, 2001
"After a meeting with Jewish lobbyists and activists, Democratic
Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York stated that she will attempt to influence
the Bush administration toward helping an Israeli humanitarian aid society
attain increased influence and full voting membership in the International
Red Cross, despite a controversy over religious symbols. Because its
relief organization Magen David Adom uses the Star of David as its emblem,
Israel has been denied membership in the international aid organization.
To change that and gain admittance, the 189 nations that signed the
Geneva Convention on the rules of war would have to approve the Star
of David as a neutral emblem, like the Red Cross and Red Crescent that
currently are accepted internationally ... 'The Red Cross International
has refused to grant voting rights to Magen David Adom because they
will not allow the cross to replace the Star of David as its logo,'
said Ilsa Putterman, who is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and runs several
refugee camps in the Scandinavian nation. 'We serve many Muslims,' she
explained. 'Many Islamic people have come to Denmark. They hate Christians
and Christianity. They call us the 'Crusaders.' Can you imagine how
the sight of the Star of David would inflame them?'"

Jews Soothe Tensions
Over Slave Reparations. JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency), August
15, 2001
"As Jewish activists scramble to block an effort to resurrect the
'Zionism is Racism' canard, they also are working to defuse potential
problems with the black community over the issue of slavery reparations.
In the run-up to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, slated
to begin Aug. 31 in Durban, South Africa, attention has focused on the
Arab campaign to single out Israel as a racist state perpetrating a
holocaust against the Palestinian people. In response, pro-Israel advocates
have enlisted as many allies as they can find — including America's
mainstream black leadership. Lost in the shuffle, however, has been
the cause celebre of some black leaders: forcing the U.N. conference
to address the legacy of slavery, even holding the Western powers accountable
for their historic role in the slave trade. That has placed American
Jewish activists in an awkward position."

"Mother's Day and
Father's Day have been banned in one of New York's leading primary schools.
The aim is to protect the feelings of children brought up by gay parents.
The Rodeph Sholom Day School sent its children home last Friday
with notes to their parents ... The Rodeph Sholom school is affiliated
with a reform Jewish synagogue. The ban was requested by a gay man who
adopted a child with his lover."

Christians
a 'Hate Group,by Mannix
Porterfield,
The Register Herald [West Virginia], September 2, 2001
"Even though lawmakers twice in as many years have repulsed efforts
to graft 'sexual orientation' into West Virginia's so-called hate crime
statute, Paul Sheridan covers this controversial aspect in his classrooms.
His teaching manual, crafted by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
partly with his input, by definition is 'aimed at a law enforcement
audience.' Much of the manual prepared by President Bill Clinton's attorney
general, already used to indoctrinate an untold number of law enforcement
agencies in this state, has stirred disquiet in the ranks of the West
Virginia Family Foundation, an affiliate of the American Family Association.
Led by Kevin McCoy of Charleston, the state group finds sections of
the curricula especially disturbing and perceives in them a sinister
undercurrent. Ultimately, he suggests, it could be employed to muzzle
men of the cloth. Under 'hate group ideology' identification, for instance,
it is written, 'Homophobia recently has been added to their agenda.'
'There goes 95 percent of West Virginians,' McCoy said last week in
an interview. 'I believe, by and large, the majority of West Virginians
oppose the homosexuality of our society, our state. Unless the senior
assistant attorney general would like to give us a different definition
of what homophobia means, my contention is this applies to anybody who
has a problem with homosexuality.' The same section identifies some
hate-mongers as those who 'blame the federal government, an international
Jewish conspiracy or communism for most of this country's problems.'
What disturbs McCoy and people like him most is the next sentence: 'Some
groups include apocalyptic Christianity in their ideology and believe
we are in, or approaching, a period of violence and social turmoil which
will precede the Second Coming of Christ'" Unless Reno and Sheridan
can show otherwise, McCoy takes this to mean anyone with a literal interpretation
of the Bible, especially in regard to scriptures on prophecy, is part
and parcel of a hate group ... Why did Reno use as part of her brain
trust the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign,
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the International Association of Chiefs
of Police, the National Association of Attorneys General and National
District Attorneys Association? Yet another paragraph in the Reno curricula
states, 'Organized hate groups focus on issues of concern to middle
America as a method for cloaking and marketing their hate philosophy
(i.e., 'government interference, cheating.') Under motivation, the manual
says hate crime offenders feel led by 'a higher order,' and, in parenthesis
as examples, God is grouped with Adolf Hitler and the Imperial Wizard."
Inmate Can Sue Ohio Over Grooming, Washington Post, December 10, 2001
"Ohio can be sued for cutting the beard of a Jewish inmate. The
Supreme Court refused on Monday to intervene and block the trial. Ohio
leaders argued that the case could provoke thousands of lawsuits. In
prisons around the country inmates are forced to follow grooming rules
intended to control contraband and gang activity. Courts have generally
sided with authorities in rules fights. But in this case an appeals
court said Hbrandon Lee Flagner, a Hasidic Jew, has a legitimate
case that he was wronged by officials who twice cut his beard and sideburns.
Justices refused to take Ohio's appeal in the case that pits public
safety against an individual's freedom of religion. Flagner claims he
is not a security risk and has a First Amendment right to follow his
religious beliefs and traditions, including letting his facial hair
grow. Twenty states joined Ohio in urging the Supreme Court to consider
the case. Attorneys for those states said if exemptions are allowed
'the ability of prison officials to maintain security will inevitably
falter, thereby placing the safety and welfare of prison staff, inmates,
and the general public at risk.'"

The
Abolition of Christmas, by Pat Buchanon, World Net Daily, December 21, 2001
"Why did the Kensington Taliban expel St. Nick? Says the mayor:
'Because two families felt that they would be uncomfortable with Santa
Claus being a part of the event.' Ebeneezer Scrooge felt the same way.
Now this may not be in the Christmas spirit, but it needs to be said
– as writer Tom Piatak says it so well in Chronicles. The spirit
that seeks to purge Santa, and has already purged Christ from Christmas,
is not a spirit of tolerance, but a spirit of 'hatred, resentment and
envy.' And why should a tiny few who resent Christmas prevail in America
over the great joyous majority who love it? ... But why, then, are we
not free to do [celebrate Christmas in public]? Why may we not celebrate,
as we did for 200 years, the birth of our Savior, the day God became
man to open up for us the gates of heaven and bring mankind the hope
of eternal salvation? Answer: Because our Constitution has been hijacked
by bigots in black robes, who perverted it to de-Christianize America.
And we let them get away with it. Second, because Christians have become
an intimidated lot, who will permit themselves to be pushed around and
even permit their Savior to go uncelebrated for fear of being called
insensitive."

B'klyn Beep
Dumps Pic of 'Old White Man' George, New York Post, January 16, 2002
"The new Brooklyn borough president said 'diversity' is making
him take down a portrait of 'old white man' George Washington that's
hung in the office for years. Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz said
he will probably hang a portrait of a black or a woman in his office
in place of the country's first president, while moving the Father of
Our Country elsewhere in Borough Hall. 'I respect history . . . but
there has to be a recognition that this is 2002,' Markowitz said. 'There's
not one picture of a person of color, not one kid, not one Latin. Borough
Hall should reflect the richness of our diversity.' He added, 'I wasn't
trying to say there's anything bad about all white men. I'm 56. I guess
you'd call me an old [Jewish] white man.'"

No
Founding Fathers? That's Our New History, Washington Times, January 28, 2002
"George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are
not included in the revised version of the New Jersey Department of
Education history standards — a move some critics view as political
correctness at its worst. The Pilgrims and the Mayflower also are excluded,
as well as the word 'war,' which has been replaced with 'conflict' in
lessons about the early settlers, colonization and expansion. Also gone
are most references to the inhumane treatment many American soldiers
endured in wars overseas during the 20th century. However, the standards
specifically note that students should identify slavery, the Holocaust
and modern Iraq as examples 'in which people have behaved in cruel and
inhumane ways.' The latest revisions to the state standards have disappointed
educators across the country, who said the board's exclusion of the
Founding Fathers' names is 'political correctness at the end of the
nth degree.'"

Holocaust
Joke By Gay Comedian Provokes Outrage, gfn.com (Gay Financial Network), August
10, 2000
"Nearly a quarter of the audience walked out of a show by the gay
American comedian Scott Capurro on Tuesday night after he caused uproar
with a gag that finished, 'Holocaust Schmolocaust, can't they find something
else to whine about?' Last night he refused to withdraw the remark and
said that because the 'reaction has been so good . . . I am going to
write more of this material' ... Capurro, whose great grandmother was
Jewish, had been rattling through a typically hard-hitting routine that
questioned why it was 'OK to laugh at blacks and homos like me, but
not OK to joke about Jews' ... Ian Stone, the Jewish comic whose
show title has been amended to "A Little Piece of K***" in the festival
program, defended Capurro's right to 'walk that fine line.' He said,
'I know Scott and he is a compassionate guy, and people should understand
that this is comedy. His comedy is about challenging prejudices. He
sees himself as an outsider and thinks Jews should reclaim words that
have been used against them, as gays have done. The 'Schmolocaust' line
will be offensive to a lot of people, although I would have laughed
because of the shock. No one has ever really said that on stage before;
it is off limits even for Jews.'"

I'm
Right Because ... You're a Nazi, spiked.com,
January 24, 2002
"This is only one recent example of how the charge of Holocaust
denial now tends to be used as an all-purpose trump card in debate.
In discussions about issues as diverse as AIDS, Kosovo, abortion, state
intervention, animal rights, the global economy and gay rights, one
side has accused the other of being akin to 'Nazis' or 'Holocaust deniers'.
What should be a rational debate, a battle between the arguments for
and against particular points of view, becomes posed as a defence of
moral absolutes. In all kinds of debates today, there is a tendency
for a particular viewpoint to be established as an orthodoxy that that
cannot be questioned. A particular opinion gets established as moral
and true, and dissent is considered unacceptable ... That Nazi allegations
have become an all-purpose tool in debate is indicated by 'Godwin's
Law' for internet discussions, formulated by Mike Godwin: 'As a Usenet
discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis
or Hitler approaches one' ... The use of the charge of Holocaust denial
in arguments about everything under the sun reflects a culture that
cannot handle rational debate. In one sense, it is a return to the unthinking
sanctimoniousness of the Middle Ages. We have opinions - on abortion,
state intervention, animal rights - because we believe they are right,
full stop. We are not prepared to have them challenged or to defend
them through rational argument (perhaps because we are not sure about
them ourselves)."
Lack of Kosher Meals in Florida Prisons Has Jewish Inmates Complaining,South Florida Sun-Sentinel, March 29, 2002
"Isaac Jaroslawicz's desk at the non-profit Aleph Institute,
based in Miami Beach, is cluttered with letters from Jewish prisoners
wanting to know how they can get kosher meals. 'For Jewish inmates,
eating kosher is as vital as living. The consumption of kosher food
helps not only the body but the soul,'' said Jaroslawicz. 'If there
is one area that the courts have repeatedly sided with Jewish inmates
or inmates of any persuasion, it's when it comes to providing a nutritionally
sufficient diet that is consistent with the inmate's religious needs.'
Yet Florida, with the second-largest Jewish population in a metropolitan
area after New York, is one of just a handful of states that doesn't
provide kosher meals ... According to the federal Bureau of Prisons,
the average cost for a prisoner's daily meal is $2.47. The cost for
a kosher meal is $4.16 ... The history of kosher food in prison goes
back to 1975 when Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense
League, successfully sued for kosher food. He was in a New York prison
in connection with a firearms conspiracy case. For a while, the state
offered kosher food at only one maximum-security prison and inmates
requesting kosher foods would be sent there. Over the last two decades,
several other inmates have filed suits in Arizona, Pennsylvania and
Colorado to make kosher food available. Arizona attorney Bruce Samuels
represented an Orthodox Jewish inmate who sued, claiming his right to
exercise his religion was being violated ... As a result of the district
court's ruling, prisons in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona,
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii are supposed to provide a
kosher option. Both Broward and Palm Beach counties began offering kosher
meals to inmates in the last year."

President
Sheehan and Trustee Laubinger Say Goodbye to the Senate,Massachusetts Daily Collegian, April 4,
2002
"On Wed. March 13, debate arose within the Senate around the Radical
Student Union and their fliers for [Jewish] guest speaker Noel Ignatiev's
talk on the abolition of the white race. Senator Ian Trefethen and member
of the RSU explained that Senator Zack Spilman brought up the content
of the fliers as being racist, and therefore suggested that the RSU
be abolished. Members of the RSU responded last night to the allegations
made at the last Senate meeting in explaining that the allegations were
made by members who did not attend the actually event. 'The flier advocating
the abolition of the white race is not racist and is not hateful,' Katie
Eident said. She further explained that the white race cannot be defined
as a race, culturally or biologically, and their intent for bring Ignatiev
to speak at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst was in an effort
to inspire, encourage and participate in an anti-racist dialogue. 'We
will continue to critically analyze and resist racism in society and
on this campus and we further encourage further dialogue around this
issue,' Eident said."

A Bid
to Legislate Love Splits a New England Town,Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 2002
"It started simply enough, with an eighth-grader's inspiration
for a community-service project. Hannah Hoy wanted her small town north
of Boston to proclaim itself a 'No Place for Hate' zone – just like
54 other Massachusetts communities. But town leaders refused to sign
such a proclamation. Soon, newspapers covering the issue began to hint
at anti-Semitism. Sensing opportunity, a white-supremacist group handed
out leaflets, and headlines appeared claiming that hate was on the rise
in Hamilton. A national outcry climaxed with Hannah's appearance on
the "Today Show." The conclusion to the story won't be written till
later this summer, when the town plans to adopt some sort of tolerance
policy. But already, this enclave of gracious estates and Sunday polo
has been forced to reexamine itself. Residents who might normally reserve
harsh words for the beavers whose dams occasionally flood their backyards
are now probing the limits of government, the meaning of diversity,
and the nature of hate. And they're discovering they have strong and
conflicting opinions – a reminder of how even the most pastoral of bedroom
communities can be polarized by accusations of hate ... Unlike most
of Massachusetts, however, there are also more registered Republicans
than Democrats. And when the No Place for Hate proclamation, a creation
of the [Jewish] Anti-Defamation League, came before town officials in
late February, their immediate reaction was to assert the boundary between
public and private interests. Towns certified as No Place for Hate zones
receive a placard and choose from 30 ADL initiatives, such as making
a peace quilt. Programs created by the ADL, a Jewish organization, are
endorsed by numerous religious and community groups nationally, and
about a dozen towns in Massachusetts are currently on a waiting list
to become No Place for Hate zones. Hamilton was the first community
in the state to look at the proclamation and pause: What kinds of demands
would it place on them? Would the town be forced to post signs in public
places? Would the ADL closely monitor it or hold it to impossible standards?"

Plaintiffs
Say Shocked By Posting of 10 Commandments,The Chattanoogan (TN), April 29, 2002
"Several plaintiffs testifying in Federal Court on Monday said
they were 'shocked' that the Hamilton County Commission posted the 10
Commandments in three public buildings. 'I was shocked. I felt like
I had to do something to stop them,' said Tracy Knauss, a local publisher
and photographer who is one of the plaintiffs. Mr. Knauss said he is
not a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, though many of the
plaintiffs said they were. The ACLU and 14 individuals are seeking to
have Judge Al Edgar order the plaques to be taken down. Hedy Weinberg,
ACLU executive director for Tennessee since 1984, said the postings
violate the separation of church and state. She said the ACLU has 131
members in Hamilton County. One of those is Rabbi Phillip Posner
of Mizpah Congregation, who said the tablets 'are offensive to me.
I see it as a form of civic idolotry.' He said the 10 Commandments were
not meant 'to cause a sense of rancor and divisiveness,' and he said
there are many different texts of the commandments."

Auto
Parts Owner Draws Israeli Ire,Houston Chronicle, April 30, 2002
"A Dripping Springs auto parts store owner apparently moved by
events in the Middle East soon found the tension from the region falling
on him after he refused an Israeli customer. John Harris, of Texas Automotive
Export, an independent auto parts store in the community west of Austin,
has been inundated with e-mails and phone calls after declaring he would
'not do business with Israeli citizens at this time.' Last week, Harris
sent a fax to Israeli citizen Avi Udiz informing the Tel Aviv attorney
that Texas Automotive would not do business with him. 'We urge you to
rein in your military and stop your oppression of the Palestinian people,'
the fax went on to say. 'Your country has lost the respect of the civilized
world,' it concluded. The fax angered Udiz, who had bought parts from
Harris in 1998 and sought parts only to upgrade his Isuzu. 'They always
answered me kindly, and I remembered them favorably. Therefore, when
I decided to upgrade my jeep, I turned to them and was shocked to receive
a reply in which they stated that they don't conduct business with Israelis,'
Udiz told the israelinsider, an Israeli Web magazine. The incident
spawned a flurry of responses from within the United States and the
Middle East and was reported widely in the Israeli media. Apparently,
the calls and e-mails came from both sides of the Middle East conflict
and either condoned or condemned Harris' actions. What remains uncertain
is why Harris fired off the fax. He declined to say what compelled him
to write it. Martin Cominsky, regional director for the Anti-Defamation
League southwest regional office in Houston, said his office investigated
the incident but found no link between Harris and the Middle East. 'Our
sense is that he was misguided,' Cominsky said. "I think he didn't realize
how his words would be received by an Israeli citizen and ultimately
the Israeli government and the Israeli press.' Harris also faced sanctions
from the federal government. U.S. companies are forbidden from boycotting
Israel under the Commerce Department's office of anti-boycott compliance.
Harris has since issued a retraction but only after considerable pressure
and the threat of a lawsuit by an Austin law firm on behalf of a group
of Israeli citizens."

The Origins of
Political Correctness,Accuracy in Academia
"Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning
– the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics,
the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where
does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have
to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they
think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced
as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic. We have
seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been
the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and
to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange
that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid
of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country.
We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout
the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it? ... If we look
at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out
exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is
Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms ... In 1923 in
Germany, a think-tank is established that takes on the role of translating
Marxism from economic into cultural terms, that creates Political Correctness
as we know it today, and essentially it has created the basis for it
by the end of the 1930s. This comes about because the very wealthy young
son of a millionaire German trader by the name of Felix Weil has
become a Marxist and has lots of money to spend ... He endows an institute,
associated with Frankfurt University, established in 1923, that was
originally supposed to be known as the Institute for Marxism. But the
people behind it decided at the beginning that it was not to their advantage
to be openly identified as Marxist. The last thing Political Correctness
wants is for people to figure out it’s a form of Marxism. So instead
they decide to name it the Institute for Social Research."

Europe
Reacts to Dath of Fortuyn,Guardian (UK), May 6, 2002
"Far-right parties and mainstream politicians across Europe condemned
Monday's slaying of Dutch rightist Pim Fortuyn. In Austria, home to
the extreme-right Freedom Party, spokesman Karl Schweitzer said he was
shaken by the death of Fortuyn, an anti-immigrant candidate gunned down
in the Netherlands as he emerged from a radio interview. ``It is madness,''
Schweitzer said. ``It always starts with verbal violence, and in that
respect some serious disarmament will be needed.'' Belgium's Vlaams
Blok, a Flemish nationalist party that advocates the expulsion of some
immigrants, said Fortuyn was a victim of his outspokenness ... `The
attack was only possible in an increasing frictional climate against
anyone who is willing to question political correctness,' said party
leader Frank Vanhecke. The assailants `are using this climate to undertake
misdeeds, even to the point of murder.' The outrage was not limited
to Europe's emerging far right: British Prime Minister Tony Blair canceled
a planned trip to the Netherlands, and issued a statement saying he
`shares the sense of real shock there will be in the Netherlands.' `No
matter what feelings political figures arouse, the ballot box is the
place to express them,' Blair said ... Fortuyn's killing shows how campaigns
against right-wing parties have gotten out of hand, said Daniele Capezzone,
secretary of Italy's small, socially liberal Radical Party. `In too
many parts of Europe, campaigns against the risk of 'fascism' in the
name of democratic principles have become literally fascist,' he said
in a statement. `It was like that with Haider, it was like that against
Le Pen, it was like that against Fortuyn. This evening, the sad fruits
of this are being collected.'''

Tolerance
Plea Is Stirring Contention, New York Times, October 4, 2002
"On Monday, the American Jewish Committee will release a statement
calling for 'intimidation-free' campuses, signed by more than 300 university
and college presidents. But because the statement, which has circulated
quietly among nearly 1,900 college presidents since August, specifically
mentions only intimidation against Jewish students, it has become the
latest focus of the Middle East tensions unfolding on the nation's campuses.
The signature gathering effort, first reported yesterday by The Chronicle
of Higher Education, was led by James O. Freedman, a former
president of Dartmouth College, and six other signers. One of the original
six, the president of Emory University, has withdrawn from the effort,
deciding that it was too one-sided. Although the statement calls for
campus debates to be 'conducted without threats, taunts, or intimidation,'
it mentions only Jewish students as the targets of harassment ... Joan
W. Scott, leader of the American Association of University Professors'
committee on academic freedom, was troubled by the statement on different
grounds. 'I thought it was great till I got to the paragraph about the
Jewish students,' Ms. Scott said. 'Then I was appalled because it was,
to put it nicely, so asymmetrical. If you count it up, there have been
far more attacks and harassment of Muslims and people expressing pro-Palestinian
views than on those who support Israeli foreign policy.'"

Human
Rights Wrongs,American Prowler, October 8, 2002
"A new entry for the don't-let-this-happen-to-you file: the case
of Kane v. Alberta Report, decided, last April 30, in
favor of one Harvey Kane of the Jewish Defense League. The conflict
should serve as a parable for what happens in modern politics when negative
and positive (group) rights collide. One of the first casualties is
free speech. The three-judge Alberta human rights tribunal examined
charges that an article in an October '97 issue of the Edmonton-based
newsmagazine Report, 'A Canmore mall project ends in a bitter
feud,' had engaged in negative stereotyping of Jews and had therefore
violated the very Canadian sounding Alberta Human Rights, Citizenship
and Multiculturalism Act (hereafter, just 'Human Rights Act'). The judges
found the Report 'guilty' of publishing, and the writer of expressing,
an impolitic opinion. Maybe it's the fact that it emanates from Canada,
home to one of the world's most dysfunctional politics, but it would
be difficult to make up material this good. The judges' ruling reads
like a parody of modern fuzzy-headed liberalism run amuck. After traipsing
through past rulings on the subject of discrimination -- some of which
are absolute howlers (e.g., the 'Sambo's Pepperpot' case) -- the judges
held that 'freedom of expression, while a fundamental value in our society,
is not absolute' and that there can be 'no social interest served in
tolerating the free expression of such material.' 'Such material' means
expressions of sentiments that the judges do not agree with; or, in
this case, the quotation of a sentiment ('North American commercial
real estate is dominated by firms that often happen to be Jewish-owned…')
that they find distasteful. They found said quotation to be so offensive,
in fact, 'that it warrants limiting freedom of expression in this case.'"
[The sinful quote in the Alberta Report in 1997
is here, and
this is its context: "One professional planner comments
on the failed project: 'North American commercial real estate is dominated
by firms that often happen to be Jewish-owned [e.g., Oshawa and Canmore
Development]. The retail sector is much the same. Like cliques everywhere,
some of these people tend to deal with each other, and Mr. Schickedanz
is an outsider.'"]

What Happened
to The Angry White Male? The media's "racial profile" of the sniper
turned out to be dead wrong,
by Jonah Goldberg, Opinion Journal
(Wall Street Journal), October 25, 2002
"'This person is kind of a wallpaper white male, a disenfranchised,
disrespected man who's getting back at society.' So explained Brian
Levin, a criminologist and director of the Center for Hate and Extremism
in San Bernardino, Calif., to the Christian Science Monitor on
Oct. 9. 'That's one of the reasons he's kept his distance from inner
D.C., where he might lose his cover.' Don't hold your breath waiting
for Mr. Levin's Gilda Radner-esque 'never mind,' as the image
of two handsome black men--who'd need no cover in inner-city Washington--fills
every television in America. He has too much company to be singled out
for mockery."

The
Bible as 'hate literature'? Canadians advance bill that chills speech
about homosexuality, World Net Daily,
October 21, 2002
"A prison sentence for quoting the Bible in Canada? Holy Scriptures
treated as 'hate literature'? That could happen if a proposed bill is
passed by Parliament, according to opponents who believe it would criminalize
public expression against homosexual behavior. A self-described homosexual
member of the House of Commons, Svend Robinson, is expected this week
to reintroduce bill C-415, which would add sexual orientation as a protected
category in Canada's genocide and hate crimes legislation ... But opponents
point out that the law addressed by Robinson's amendment spells out
three different types of actions or speech considered criminal, and
only one can be excused by a religious defense. And even that one, opponents
maintain, has not always held up in court, because its vagueness leaves
wide discretion to judges. The most dangerous aspect of this amendment
is that 'hate' and 'hate propaganda' are not defined, says Brian Rushfeldt,
executive director of the Canada Family Action Coalition in Calgary,
Alberta. ... No religious defense is contained in section 318 of the
current law, which has a sentence of up to five years in prison for
advocating 'genocide,' nor in section 319(1), prohibiting public incitement
of 'hatred' against an identifiable group that is 'likely to lead to
a breach of the peace.' Section 319(2), which prohibits a public statement
that 'willfully promotes hatred' against a protected group, does have
an article that excuses statements expressed in 'good faith,' including
religious expression."

Pennsylvania
Goes After Thought Crimes,Newsmax, (from CNSNews.com), Nov. 28, 2002
" A bill passed by the Pennsylvania legislature may make it illegal
for preachers to quote Bible passages condemning homosexuality, according
to a group that opposes the measure. The bill, passed by the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives Tuesday night, is now on its way to Gov. Mark
Schweiker, who says he will sign it. The measure amends the state's
Ethnic Intimidation Act to include 'sexual orientation, gender or gender
identity.' The pro-family Urban Family Council worries that the bill
will be enforced too liberally. William Devlin, the group's president,
is advising pastors and churches across Pennsylvania to 'obtain some
very good liability insurance and contact an attorney if the pastor
intends to continue faithfully preaching the Word.'"

'Homosexual'
is banned, The Sun (UK), December 2, 2002
"Gays have had the word homosexual banned by the Government because
they say it is offensive. Ministers want it written out of their vocabulary
after complaints that it was outdated. Instead they will refer to those
with an 'orientation towards people of the same sex'. Homosexual, coined
130 years ago, will be ditched under anti-discrimination laws drawn
up by equality minister Barbara Roche. Whitehall officials will be told
not to use the term in official documents, speeches, press releases
or white papers. Last night a spokesman for Mrs Roche, 48, denied the
move was political correctness ... For decades homosexual was regarded
as a non-discriminatory alternative to words like queer, fairy and poof.
But since gay took over as the most popular description in the 1960s,
homosexual is seen by some as a term of abuse."

Florida's
Jewfish Creek to retain its name despite protest,Bangkok Post (from AFP), November 26, 2002
"For reasons of political correctness, the jewfish officially became
a Goliath grouper last year, but authorities in the Florida Keys rejected
a request to follow suit and rename Jewfish Creek. The Monroe County
Commission has voted unanimously to maintain the name of the creek in
southern Florida's coral island chain, the Florida Keys Keynoter reported.
The vote was taken in response to a query by the US Board on Geographic
Names, which received a formal request from a concerned citizen who
felt the creek should be renamed in line with the huge, bottom-feeding
fish, known to scientists as epinephelus itajara. Last year, the Committee
of Names of Fishes of the American Fisheries Society ruled that the
jewfish name was offensive, and renamed the fish Goliath grouper. There
are numerous theories as to how the original name came about, with some
people saying it was a mispronunciation of jawfish, and others saying
the head of the fish had a bone shaped like a Star of David. 'The name
is not offensive,' the Keynoter quoted local resident Van Cadenhead
as saying. 'I dont think a jewfish looks Jewish, although it does look
almost exactly like Yasser Arafat.'"

Group:
Law Should Include Gay Unions,Newsday, December 5, 2002
"American divorce and child custody laws need to be updated to
extend rights to gay couples and unmarried parents, an influential judicial
think tank says. The American Law Institute, an independent association
of lawyers and judges that has wielded an extraordinary influence over
American legal practices since its founding in 1923, spent 10 years
evaluating family law before publishing its findings in May. Among its
suggestions: * A person's sexual orientation should not be considered
by courts in custody matters. * Homosexual couples in long-term relationships
should have to make alimony or child-support payments if they split
up. * Unmarried heterosexual couples who break up after long relationships
should fall under traditional divorce laws, especially if they own joint
property or have children. In the months since the report was published,
the institute has been bombarded with e-mails calling it everything
from 'a great threat to the family" to 'Marxists' and 'greedy lawyers.'
The report's principal author, Arizona State University law professor
Ira Mark Ellman, said the goal was to close holes in family law
that have left judges guessing as to how to deal with nontraditional
families ... The work has been assailed by conservatives as an assault
on marriage. Joshua Baker, a staff attorney for the Marriage Law Project
at The Catholic University of America, said creating legal rules governing
the breakup of gay relationships gives them a status equivalent to marriage
that most states do not currently allow. "We have some serious misgivings
about whether the law should recognize domestic partnerships at all,"
he said. Oklahoma state Rep. Bill Graves, a Republican who has filed
bills that would bar his state from recognizing same-sex unions made
in other states, said giving gay relationships legal standing condones
'totally illegitimate' behavior."

The
Multicultural Theocracy: An Interview With Paul Gottfried,Newsmax, Dec. 5, 2002
(Paul Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College.
An adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and contributing
editor to Humanitas and Chronicles).[GOTTRIED, who is Jewish]: "Multiculturalism has the same
relation to the present managerial state as the Catholic Church did
to medieval European monarchies. It travels in the baggage of the American
empire, as was evident during the unprovoked attack on Serbia. ... [M]ass
democratic regime has turned progressively therapeutic, with the advent
of the cult of victims and the degeneration of Christianity into a purveyor
of the politics of guilt ... Examples of PC enforcement by the state
are the use of Title Nine to impose verbal and behavioral conformity
on male academics and workers; the various hate speech laws that exist
in Canada and Europe and are applied almost exclusively against white
Christian European; and the delegitimation of the historical heritage
of victimizing groups: e.g., the war against Southern symbols and iconography
waged, in among other areas in the US, public education [e.g., dress
codes prohibiting attire with a Confederate flag]. The BBC recently
had a headline, 'Hate crime police raid 150 homes,' about an operation
in London administered by a 'Diversity Directorate.' Sweden recently
passed a law criminalizing the 'disrespecting' of homosexuals ... [Q:]
You write, By now all Christians have been generically indicted for
the Holocaust, which has been extended to gays and explained in such
a way as to minimize the suffering of identifiably Christian victims.
[GOTTFRIED]: Members of my family were worked to death in Nazi
labor camps; some died of typhus soon after being liberated. Needless
to say, I am not a Holocaust denier ... What I oppose is not the recognition
by the establishment Left that the Nazis killed millions of people but
the use of anti-fascism as a tool of control. This instrumentalization
has been cynically carried out by political elites, European Commies,
and academics throughout the West. A very useful book on this subject
in French by Elisabeth Levy shows how completely the totalitarian
Left suppresses opposition in France by identifying all dissenters as
Nazis or fascists. Supposedly by making a case against increased Islamicist
immigration into France, one incites fascist hate and prepares the way
for a second Auschwitz. Read Peter Novick's 'The Holocaust in
American Life' for a striking account of the changes in Jewish attitudes
about who or what caused the Holocaust. Novick maintains that what has
fueled this new animus against 'Nazi-bearing' Christianity has nothing
to do with scholarly revelations. Rather it has arisen out of Jewish
repugnance for Christianity at a time when Christians have certainly
not persecuted Jews. To the contrary, Christians are the only possible
allies that the Jews can now claim."

Feds
fixing 'Southern bias' at U.S. parks Officials look to emphasize horrors
of slavery at Civil War battlefields,World Net Daily, December 22, 2002
"The National Park Service is looking to rid itself of what it
calls Southern bias at major Civil War battlefields and instead emphasize
the horrors of slavery. According to Reuters, ground zero for
the project is Gettysburg, site of the largest battle ever fought on
American soil. Plans are going ahead to build a new visitors center
and museum at a cost of $95 million that will completely change the
way the conflict is presented to visitors ... The project follows the
furor over Republican Sen. Trent Lott's recent remarks which some felt
endorsed racial segregation, prompting many Americans to revisit one
of the uglier chapters of the nation's history. When it opens in 2006,
the new museum will offer visitors a narrative of the entire Civil War,
putting the battle into its larger historical context. Latschar said
he was inspired by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
D.C., which sets out to tell a story rather than to display historical
artifacts behind glass cases. "Our current museum is absolutely abysmal.
It tells no story. It's a curator's museum with no rhyme or reason,"
Latschar said. Approximately 1.8 million people visit Gettysburg annually.
Latschar said a disproportionate number were men and the park attracts
very few black visitors. Three historians were invited to examine the
site in 1998, and they concluded Gettysburg's interpretive programs
had a 'pervasive southern sympathy.' The same was true at most if not
all of the 28 Civil War sites operated by the National Park Service.
A report to Congress delivered in March 2000 found that only nine did
an adequate job of addressing slavery in their exhibits. Another six,
including Gettysburg, gave it a cursory mention. The rest did not mention
it at all. Most parks are now trying to correct the situation. Park
rangers and licensed guides at Gettysburg and other sites have already
changed their presentations in line with the new policy."

[Jewish Lobbying organizations have been central in the creation
of the socio-political milieu for "politically correct" totalitarianism.]Editorial:
Policing the vocabulary Textbook sensitivity goes fanatic (whoops),Sacramento Bee, February 27, 2003
"See if you can guess what these 12 seemingly disparate words and
phrases have in common: Lumberjack, one-man band, junk bonds, heroine,
hut, extremist, fraternize, dialect, busybody, senile, fanatic, minority
group. Stumped? Believe it or not, they are among a growing group of
words that test and textbook publishers, and the state agencies that
approve their offerings, don't want students in the K-12 public schools
to see. The March issue of the Atlantic Monthly includes a lengthy list
of words, phrases and 'images to avoid' when textbook authors are writing
about ethnic groups, men, women, and the elderly (whoops, that's considered
ageist, so make it 'older people'). The list was compiled by Diane Ravitch,
one of the country's most spirited and respected education analysts.
Her book, The Language Police, will be published in April...
In fairness to California, this state hasn't produced its own list of
banned words. It has published, however, a pamphlet called 'Standards
for Evaluating Instructional Materials for Social Content.' The 2000
edition contains 15 pages of guidance -- formed by the Legislature and
the state Board of Education -- on what's OK and what's not. Reading
through the detailed standards for writing about male and female roles,
ethnic and cultural groups, older people and the aging process, people
with disabilities, entrepreneurs and laborers, religion, the environment,
thrift, fire prevention and the humane treatment of animals and people,
one comes away with the impression that American textbook publishers
seeking a toehold in the California market (read, all of them) would
be pretty much afraid to say anything at all."

[Example #1: Jews apparently own the word 'Holocaust'.]ADL Denounces
Peta for its 'Holocaust On Your Plate' Campaign; Calls Appeal for Jewish
Community Support 'The Height Of Chutzpah' New York, NY, Anti-Defamation
League, February 24, 2003
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights for
its 'Holocaust on Your Plate' project for trivializing the murder of
six million Jews and called its appeal for approval by the Jewish community
'outrageous, offensive and taking chutzpah to new heights.' Abraham
H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued
the following statement: 'The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate
systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights
is abhorrent. PETA's effort to seek 'approval' for their 'Holocaust
on Your Plate' campaign is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah
to new heights. Rather than deepen our revulsion against what the Nazis
did to the Jews, the project will undermine the struggle to understand
the Holocaust and to find ways to make sure such catastrophes never
happen again. Abusive treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot
and must not be compared to the Holocaust. The uniqueness of human life
is the moral underpinning for those who resisted the hatred of Nazis
and others ready to commit genocide even today."

[Um, "Turkish bazaars?" Is a "Turkish bazaar"
something like getting "jewed?" Neither is a term of endearment.
Please explain why the first slur is kosher, the second taboo.]IDF source:
Haggling over defense cuts like 'Turkish bazaar',
by Moti Bassok, Haaretz (Israel),
March 10, 2003
"A senior military source harshly criticized Monday a meeting to
hammer out cuts to the defense budget, describing it as akin to a 'Turkish
bazaar.' Slamming the manner in which the deliberations were handled,
the source said that the 'negotiations were conducted like a Turkish
bazaar.' The meeting, between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Defense
Minister Shaul Mofaz, Minister Meir Sheetrit and Finance
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ended without results."

[From Mark Leno's web site: A native of Wisconsin, Leno attended
the University of Colorado at Boulder, then went on to become valedictorian
of his graduating class at the American College of Jerusalem, where
he earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree. Leno also spent two years in
Rabbinical Studies at Hebrew Union in New York.]YOUR
GOVERNMENT AT WORK. Bill would force hiring of cross-dressers. Even
Boy Scouts, Bible bookstores subject of California law,World Net Daily, April 21, 2003
"The Democrat-controlled California Assembly passed a bill today
mandating fines of up to $150,000 against business owners - including
Bible bookstores and nonprofit organizations such as the Boy Scouts
- for refusing to hire cross-dressing and transsexual job applicants.
After more than 45 minutes of debate, with a majority of speakers opposing
the bill, AB 196 passed the Assembly by the narrowest of margins. The
vote was 41 to 34, the bare minimum needed to advance the bill to the
state Senate. All the 'yes' votes on AB 196 were from Democrats. Voting
'no' were 31 Republicans and three Democrats ... Authored by homosexual
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, AB 196 would insert a
new definition of 'gender' into the powerful state Fair Employment and
Housing Act. The bill's subjective definition of 'gender' is 'identity,
appearance, or behavior, whether or not that identity, appearance, or
behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the victim's
sex at birth.' Leno has cited reports from the National Center for Lesbian
Rights, the San Francisco Department of Public Health and several other
studies that have documented widespread discrimination against what
he calls 'transgender people' ... AB 196 would force employers to allow
male employees to wear women's clothes and deny religious business owners
to follow their own moral convictions opposing cross-dressing or sex
changes ... 'This bill would give drag queens unprecedented power to
persecute the Boy Scouts and religious businesses, even the power to
shut down a Bible bookstore,' said Randy Thomasson, executive director
of Campaign for California Families, a statewide nonprofit, nonpartisan
family issues leadership organization. 'People aren't going to sacrifice
their dearly-held values. What small business or nonprofit organization
could financially survive a government investigation and a $150,000
penalty? AB 196 is grossly intolerant of religious freedom and the Boy
Scouts. This radical bill engages in reverse discrimination and would
do real harm to persons of conscience.'"

Jews'
Role Murky As Rebel Banner Drops in Georgia, By JEFF ZELL, [Jewish] Forward, May
2, 2003
"Thanks to a last-second compromise reached by lawmakers last week,
the state flag of Georgia is about to drop the notorious Confederate
battle emblem for the first time in nearly 50 years.. The deal — widely
seen as a rebuke of Republican Governor Sonny Perdue — came quickly,
catching most observers by surprise. But for Tyrone Brooks and other
black state legislators, it has been a long fight to remove the Confederate
emblem — the Rebel Cross — from the flag. Some black leaders have questioned
why the Jewish community has not taken a more public stand in that fight,
but Jewish leaders said they were working 'behind the scenes' on the
issue ... What's not as clear, it seems, is the role played by the Jewish
community in the debate. During recent months, some black leaders have
observed that the Jewish community generally stayed on the sidelines.
But Judy Marx, associate director of the American Jewish Committee's
Atlanta chapter, said her group was working against any efforts to bring
back the 1956 flag. 'We fought hard behind the scenes,' Marx
said. 'We wrote every state legislator making our opinion known, but
we were not out in front in the media.' AJCommittee helped create the
local Black-Jewish Coalition in 1982 and underwrites Project Understanding,
a retreat for black and Jewish leaders."

Unconventional
Wisdom. Student's lawsuit shows lack of class,
By Tanya Barrientos, Philadelphia Inquirer,
May 3, 2003
"There's a saying that everything we need to know we learned in
kindergarten. Blair Hornstine of Moorestown must not have been
paying attention the day her class learned about playing well with others.
Not that it kept her from doing well in school. On paper, the 18-year-old
Moorestown High School senior looks like every parent's dream. Her grades
are top-notch. Her SAT scores fall a few points short of perfection.
She's won numerous national, city, county and school district accolades
for her academic achievements. With her older brother, Adam,
she founded a volunteer organization that helps the underprivileged.
And she and Adam got a 2001 Presidential Service Award from the
White House applauding their success. That same year, she was picked
to carry the Olympic torch along Broad Street. On paper, Blair
seems like the perfect antidote for the average underachieving, monosyllabic,
television-loving, won't-even-make-the-bed teen. She has a medical condition
that leaves her too fatigued to attend all her classes at school. And
yet, she still got accepted to Harvard University. Yep - on paper, she's
a darling. But, in the flesh, Little Miss Perfect is a petty crybaby.
She and her legal-minded parents (her father is Camden County Judge
Louis Hornstine) are spitting mad because Blair might have
to share the valedictorian spotlight with some other student at graduation.
The superintendent wants to name co-valedictorians, because he believes
the school's weighted grading system (and a reduced class schedule)
gave Blair an unfair advantage. Two other students with near-perfect
grades were required to take on-campus classes such as physical education
(which is weighted less in the grade-point-average calculations). And
that made it impossible for them to achieve a GPA as high as Blair's,
the superintendent claims. The Hornstines have made it into a
federal case. Literally. They've filed a discrimination lawsuit asking
for $2.7 million in damages. (Which these days is probably just enough
to cover books and board and tuition at Harvard.) Can someone please
explain what life lesson Blair's parents want her to learn from
this? That the girl who already has everything should throw a temper
tantrum when things don't go her way? That overcoming a disability and
making it to the top is only worth celebrating if you're up there alone?
That even though life isn't fair, hiring a slick lawyer is? ... Whatever
happens now, Blair Hornstine of the graduating class of 2003
will not be remembered as the school valedictorian. Nor as the exceptionally
smart, hard-working and talented girl that she undoubtedly is. She will
be forever recalled as the sulky, churlish child who took her pomp and
circumstance to court and ruined graduation day for everyone.